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Pax, Trump-Hegseth remix: America's gun laws, dehumanisation and double standards have been its ticket to virtueGlobal powers often apply different standards to conflicts. Events in the West are viewed with shock, while similar tragedies in regions li...
Three key legislative bills to be discussed in Lok Sabha todayThe Lok Sabha is gearing up for a busy Monday. Discussions will include committee reports and ministerial statements. Key reports from Exte...
Canada’s Strong Borders Act to combat organized crime, curb illegal fentanyl; what changes in immigration policy with Bill C-2Canada introduces the Strong Borders Act, Bill C-2. The bill aims to strengthen border security and reform the asylum system. It provides l...
Commuters' rights, anyone?Tragic incidents, including a boat accident that claimed the lives of schoolchildren and teachers, an airline passenger assault, and the ne...
Government exempts IGST on ocean freight from October 1KPMG Indirect Tax Head & Partner Abhishek Jain said the amendments proposed are aligned with the apex court's ruling in the case of Mohit M...
Mines ministry in process of identifying mineral blocks in sea: SecretaryThe mines secretary further said that recycling of metals, including aluminium, is extremely important for India to be self reliant. The le...
SC ruling unlikely to alter GST regime; power to reject Council's recos never used: Revenue SecyThe recommendations of the GST Council, as per the Constitutional amendment, were always a guidance and never a mandatory compliance, Reven...
India put climate change at the centre of its environmental policies in 2021At the UN climate meet, India once again highlighted that developed nations have not only failed to meet the USD 100 billion goal annually ...
View: Bangladesh reveals India’s challenged pre-eminence in the Bay of BengalEven as India offended Bangladesh over the last year by its impolite and impolitic stance on matters as varied as labelling Muslim immigran...
Two US senators introduce legislations to strengthen India-US defence tiesMoving an amendment to the NDAA 2021, Senator Mark Warner and Senator John Cornyn asked for assessment from Defence Secretary Mark Esper wh...
US Defence Authorisation Act readies three strategies for Indo-Pacific regionThe NDAA 2020, which was signed by US President Donald Trump a few days ago, authorises $738 billion for fiscal year 2020 for military acti...
Pentagon asked to work closely with India in maritime domainAn amendment in this regard to the National Defence Authorisation Act (NDAA)-2018, moved by Senator Ted Cruz, was passed by the Senate Arme...
Airports Authority of India working on norms for monetising land assetsAAI -- which is estimated to have garnered over Rs 12,000 crore revenue in 2016-17 -- is in possession of large swathes of land in differen...
US Senators ask govt to work to restore democracy in Maldives, release Mohamed NasheeedNasheed, the country's first democratically elected leader, was arrested in February on charges of ordering arrest of a senior judge in 201...
- AAI to be corporatised, listed
Airports Authority of India would be turned into a company to enable it to raise funds from mkt. Gainers: BSE ( A, B ), NSE | Losers: BSE (...
- River-Sea Vessel notification vis-ीं-vis Inland Vessel Act(२००८) - A choice to make
This is with particular reference to the rejoinder from the Indian Coastal Conference (ICC), published in Economic Times on September 1, 20...
- DoP stamps out French connect in parcel entity
Can a foreign public utility company compete directly with another such entity in the latter’s home turf?
- The new Inland Vessel Act
The recent Inland Vessel Act amending the existing Inland Vessel Act of 1917 passed by the Lok Sabha on August 30, 2007, has come too late ...
- Govt hopes to regulate release of essential commodities via new bill
A bill to overcome litigation problems hindering payment to sugarcane growers by amending the Essential Commodities Act was introduced in L...
- Eco laws to be bent to squeeze in SEZs
NEW DELHI: The government proposes to amend the country's environmental laws to allow Special Economic Zones, the new great white hope of e...